My Lords, I welcome the debate and the opportunity to speak in support of the Government’s approach to one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time. I do so not as a politician but as someone who has the personal experience of what it means to love somebody with a serious mental hea…
My Lords, I will speak about an issue that millions of our fellow citizens suffer under a system that exists not by accident but by design. Housing, His Majesty told us, is
“a source of insecurity for many people”.
That is perhaps the most restrained description of the leasehold system one could o…
My Lords, I had the privilege of attending Kenton synagogue’s Friday night service last week. It happens to be my local synagogue, no more than two minutes from where I live. I heard huge concern among congregants not only about the recent attack at the synagogue but about their general feeling of i…
My Lords, I congratulate our maiden speech-makers today and join in the general welcome to them. I draw from the noble Lord, Lord Walker, a very wise remark when he reminded our governing party that it is indeed the Labour Party, not the “Benefits Party”. While I think that all of us here share the …
My Lords, I start by thanking the Minister for this important debate on International Women’s Day.
I begin my contribution by paying tribute to my right honourable and noble friend Lady May, a former Prime Minister, and to my right honourable and noble friend Lord Hague. I joined the Conservative P…
I declare an interest as the head of the Labour office at the Local Government Association. As my noble friend will know, councils of all colours have worked together with communities to put forward proposals, knowing the opportunities and benefits that local government reorganisation will bring. Wh…
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, for introducing the debate and for being so frank about the proposal. As he said right at the end, the alternative to private donations is state funding, which indeed is the lesson of everywhere where we have seen it happen.
There are two obvio…
My Lords, I apologise for not having been here previously. I was not a Member of the House when the Bill first came to the House, so I could not speak on it then, but I would like to speak on it today. I will set out some context about my understanding of planning and where I come from. I was eight …
My Lords, we will have the Conservative Benches next, please.
My noble friend is absolutely right. Soon, we will mark 10 years since my friend Jo Cox was murdered, which brings all this very much to a point. There are many things that we are doing together, including the Joint Election Security Preparedness Unit, which is jointly run by the Cabinet Office and …
My noble friend is right to highlight the fact that we all share the objective of a safe online space, but one where children and others can benefit from the digital world and the digital economy. Navigating that and getting the right measures in place was the subject of some debate in this House la…
My Lords, it is a great honour to welcome my new and noble friend Lady Shah to her place in your Lordships’ House, and it is a joy to congratulate her on a beautiful maiden speech. Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of my own introduction, and over the past year I have sometimes wondered exactly w…